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    Bolsonaro must quarantine Brazil -- now

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/03/2021

    » If I were a world dictator, I would immediately place Brazil under total quarantine: nobody gets in, nobody comes out. And I would keep it isolated until they (a) arrest and jail President Jair Bolsonaro; (b) impose a strict countrywide lockdown for at least two months; and (c) vaccinate everybody in the country (all 213,584,556 of them). And then we'll see.

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    Is this the end for reckless populism?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2020

    » There is nothing wrong to participate in a sex party of any kind," said a source in the European Parliament. "However, such kinds of meetings with many people are illegal under the coronavirus laws."

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    Donald Trump and the 'Yellow Peril'

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/05/2020

    » It was completely predictable that Donald Trump would try to blame China for the fact that at least 30 million Americans are unemployed and that 70,000 Americans have already died of Covid-19. His polling numbers are down and the election is only seven months away. What else was he going to do? Blame himself?

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    Nations facing lengthy lockdowns to prevent spread

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/03/2020

    » Most of the countries in Asia, Europe and North America are now in lockdown to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. This is the 'suppression' strategy, and it should keep the death rate from going exponential for a while. The unanswered question is: what do we do next?

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    Coronavirus response reveals China's fatal weakness

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/01/2020

    » In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is that it can respond very fast. The bad thing is that it won't respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says that it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won't risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in the first place.

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